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Andrew Bryant loves guns. He served in the Marines Corps, where he completed two tours in Afghanistan and rose to the rank of sergeant, and now he works at Battlefield Vegas as a range safety officer. Given his experience and enthusiasm, we asked him to make a list of what really took his attention at

A Robotic Wingman vehicle maneuvers semi-autonomously through a course at Fort Benning, Georgia, in late 2017. The vehicle can mount either an M134 Gatling-style minigun or an M240B machine gun. (Photo: U.S. Army) “Everyone could use a wingman. Ours just happens to be a self-driving Humvee with a machine gun,” says the Army about its

Federal agents bough ttwo guns from anonymous dealers on the Dark Web: an AR-15, left, and an Uzi, right. (Photo: Government Accountability Office) A federal report released last week detailed a covert government investigation into illegal online gun sales, uncovering layers of complexity unaddressed by previous studies. The Government Accountability Office spent more than two years answering gun ads online to

Reports on gun sales often follow a tragedy that forces a national debate about gun ownership. When figures are up, they’re interpreted as successful political efforts by pro-gun organizations. When they’re down, the opposite is true. But sometimes results reported are askew or incomplete. They miss the larger patterns that exist or outright misrepresent the

Documentary filmmaker and liberal activist Michael Moore is not a fan of the 2nd Amendment. (Photo: YouTube) PolitiFact has called out liberal activist and documentary filmmaker Michael Moore for some claims he made in a Facebook post calling for the Second Amendment to be repealed and replaced after the mass shooting in Las Vegas. Specifically,

Rick Ector with his Smith & Wesson 9mm at a Detroit gas station in 2012. (Photo: Carlos Osorio/Associated Press) An estimated 3 million Americans carry a loaded handgun on their person every day, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health. Researchers from the University of Washington, Harvard University and